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Senior editor at @sciam. Author of Five Billion Years of Solitude, re: the search for Earth-like exoplanets. Opinions my own. Signal: @lee_billings.81
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Anna Ho

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By Lee Billings 
| Scientific American
Quick Facts Anna Ho 33 Astrophysics Cornell University In high school Anna Ho became so fascinated with neuroscience that she wrote to neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, asking whether he needed an intern. A representative for Sacks politely declined, she recalls, but encouraged her to pursue her passions. She did, and it led her on a transformative journey into space science.
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SpaceX's historic IPO ignites the new space race

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By Lee Billings , Jonathan O Callaghan
| Scientific American
SpaceX's IPO—the largest in history—has out-of-this-world implications for AI, space commerce and extraterrestrial exploration SpaceX is shooting for the moon, in more ways than one. The company has just debuted on the stock market in the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history, with the company raising some $75 billion and being valued at an almost ludicrous $1.77 trillion.
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Scientific American

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By Phil Plait , Lee Billings 
| Scientific American
Meteor camera networks can reveal the hidden history of the solar system, and you can assist from your own backyard We need to keep better track of invaders from space. And by invaders, I mean meteors. And by we, I mean you —or, more accurately, any astronomy nerd who can. Meteors, sometimes poetically, if not terribly accurately, called shooting stars, are the luminous displays that occur when cosmic debris—usually small bits of rock or metal—hits Earth's air.
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